Phillip S  CUMMINGS (CUMMINS)

Early Old Colony Families
'Philip Cummings bought land in Dartmouth, Mass., in June, 1687, and was constable. Elizabeth, mentioned there in 1706, may have been his wife. Eight children appear to have been registered there between Jan. 3, 1686, and Sept 25, 1704. A John, whose wife was Martha, bought lands in Dartmouth as early as 1726. His will was proved in Sept., 1772, and he left daughters, Sarah, who married ____ Pettis, and Elizabeth, who married ____ Horton; also a son John and a grandson Alanson...'


Title The Cummings Memorial: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Isaac Cummings, an Early Settler of Topsfield, Massachusetts
Compiled by George Mooar
Publisher B.F. Cummings, 1903
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Sep 20, 2006
Length 532 pages

1707 Death
Name: Philip Commins
Gender: Male
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Death Date: 21 Nov 1707
Death Place: Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I09123-5
System Origin: Rhode Island-EASy
GS Film number: 912787
Reference ID: p 22

'Rhode Island, Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950,' index, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ F869-KM1 : accessed 08 Dec 2013), Philip Commins, 21 Nov 1707.
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Biography
Philip Cummings, the American progenitor of the Cummings family of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, was an early settler of Portsmouth, Rhode Island who moved to Dartmouth about 1686. He died in 1707. His great-grandson, Benjamin Cummings, was born in Dartmouth, Mass., in 1750. He served in several town offices, including surveyor of highways between 1784-1815 and selectman from 1798-1808. In addition to his civic duties, he also owned a saw mill and a grist mill, commanded merchant vessels, and operated a general store in partnership with his son, William Cummings (1783-1872). Upon Benjamin's death in 1831, William took his brother, John Cummings (1795-1864), as a partner in the store and called the business William Cummings & Company. To supplement their mercantile activities, William and John, along with their brother, Benjamin Cummings (1797-1863), invested in whaling vessels through agents such as Gibbs & Jenney of Fairhaven, Mass., and William Gifford and Charles R. Tucker & Company,...Read full story

Morton-Almy House, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
'...Our ongoing history series featured writer Christina Styan's report on historical researcher Bob Harding's report to the Dartmouth Historical Commission on the interesting Morton-Almy House on Old Westport Road, a site first settled by Philip Cummins in 1687.'

The Dartmouth Westport Chronicle
January 2, 2013
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